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APhA is proud to partner with leading vendors like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Sony to offer you eBook versions of some of our bestselling titles. These eBooks can be purchased and downloaded directly to your preferred device via the links below.

The Art, Science, and Technology of Pharmaceutical Compounding presents in a logical and progressive format all the information that pharmacists and student pharmacists need to understand the purpose and processes of compounding. In this latest edition, all chapters have been updated and significantly revised. Author Loyd V. Allen Jr., the preeminent expert, covers basic guidelines, economic and technical factors that compounding pharmacists must consider, and all aspects of good manufacturing practices for compounded medications.

Communication Skills for Pharmacists: Building Relationships, Improving Patient Care, 3rd edition, includes material that will help student pharmacists and practicing pharmacists develop the communication skills they need for providing high-quality care.

Complete Review for the Pharmacy Technician is the ideal manual for students entering formal technician training programs, for community and hospital pharmacy technicians beginning in-house training, and for candidates preparing for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam. The 3rd edition of this bestseller has been reorganized and enhanced to address new exam requirements released by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board in 2013. It will also prepare pharmacy technicians for today’s expanded role in pharmacies. The book is the flagship of the APhA Pharmacy Technician Training Series.

Are you a pharmacist or pharmacy technician who has Spanish-speaking patients but can’t speak a word of Spanish and don’t have time to learn? Then Essential Spanish for Pharmacy is the phrase book for you. Written by pharmacists for the pharmacy field and small and light enough to fit into a pocket, the booklet offers an easy-to-follow pronunciation guide for hundreds of useful Spanish words and phrases.

Getting Started as a Pharmacy Manager is applicable to real-life situations, regardless of practice setting, because it provides insights into issues that most pharmacy managers will face, such as human resources, financial procedures, pharmacy law and patient confidentiality, business plan development, and successful leadership development.

This publication introduces the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process, which was adopted in May 2014 by the Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners (JCPP), a group of 11 national pharmacy organizations. The goal is to help pharmacists understand the components of the standard patient care process and apply the process to patients in all pharmacy practice settings. Six sample case studies set in different patient care settings enable the reader to practice applying the patient care process. Additional activities enable pharmacists to evaluate existing patient care services, develop strategies for continuous quality improvement, and create an implementation plan for their practice.

Leadership and advocacy are more art than science. In pharmacy, leadership is an important professional attribute and skill that must be developed and applied over a lifetime of practice and volunteer service. Through the personal stories, real life dilemmas, and experienced perspectives in this book revision, readers will learn that applying leadership to advocacy is about relationships, communication, and desire.

This book describes how Motivational Interviewing replaces everyday persuasive strategies and language habits that trigger resistance in patients, and how this can be overcome through building rapport with the patient and listening to the patient’s reasoning and concerns.

A firm grasp of the pharmacy profession’s history and scope is crucial for every student pharmacist. In this updated third edition, authors L. Michael Posey and Abir (Abby) A. Kahaleh gives readers an insider’s perspective on the workings of the profession. They revisits key topics such as government regulation, career pathways, membership organizations, communication skills, and ethics.

Pharmacy Ethics: A Foundation for Professional Practice
Robert A. Buerki and Louis D. Vottero
ISBN: 9781582121796

Pharmacy Ethics: A Foundation for Professional Practice is an introductory text on the professional ethics of pharmacy practice. The text is designed for use in pharmacy practice courses in which professional ethics is only one component of the instruction. Written in a conversational style, the text includes over 40 case studies and situations that encourage class discussion and questions for reflection that encourage individual thought. Preceptors in experiential rotations can use this resource to help students reflect on how ethical issues can affect their practice of pharmacy.

Pharmacy Research: A How-To Guide for Students, Residents, and New Practitioners provides an introduction to research methods and a foundation on which individual research practices can be built. It includes tools for research training and cultivation, an area emphasized by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education.

Small and light enough to carry comfortably in a lab coat pocket, The Pharmacy Technician’s Pocket Drug Reference contains the five main pieces of drug information that a pharmacy technician seeks. For each of about 1,400 of the most commonly prescribed drugs—including more than 100 drugs new to the market since the eighth edition—the book provides generic name (with pronunciation), trade name(s), therapeutic class, general FDA approved therapeutic use(s), and commercially available dosage forms/strengths.